It comes from the title of this book http://www.amazon.com/Lean-In-Women-Work-Will/dp/0385349947 by Cheryl Sandberg, CEO of Facebook. It encourages women, particularly mothers, to push harder for promotions and other emblems of success in the workplace; it's the opposite of mommy tracking. The basic idea is that women should be smart enough to marry men who can back them up at home and allow them (women) to devote however much time and energy they need to succeed at their careers.

To me, this is nothing more than a recycling of "women need to act more like men at work", but that's my opinion.

Example, "You need to lean in at work and be willing to give up some family time to succeed."

I think this is more midwest than ethnic based, although it could be originally driven by, say, Germans and then picked up by those of us who aren't. I used to think it was Chicago based, but it isn't. One of my housemates grew up in Iowa and MN, and she uses it too. Neither she nor I have any German ancestry.

There's no defense for it grammatically, but I can promise it's a hard one to break!

Yes, but told WHAT, exactly? I don't mind the oh snap because of how infrequently I hear it, but I hate being told that I just got told. Um, yes, that's what usually happens in conversation. You get told or asked various things. It happens.

"Some people just want to watch the world burn." People use that one way too much. I'm sorry, someone who rearranges a set of things in front of someone who just spent hours organizing them doesn't want to watch the world burn, they're annoying. Wanting to watch the world burn is something on a completely different scale.

Yes, but told WHAT, exactly? I don't mind the oh snap because of how infrequently I hear it, but I hate being told that I just got told. Um, yes, that's what usually happens in conversation. You get told or asked various things. It happens.

"Some people just want to watch the world burn." People use that one way too much. I'm sorry, someone who rearranges a set of things in front of someone who just spent hours organizing them doesn't want to watch the world burn, they're annoying. Wanting to watch the world burn is something on a completely different scale.

Yes, but told WHAT, exactly? I don't mind the oh snap because of how infrequently I hear it, but I hate being told that I just got told. Um, yes, that's what usually happens in conversation. You get told or asked various things. It happens.

"Some people just want to watch the world burn." People use that one way too much. I'm sorry, someone who rearranges a set of things in front of someone who just spent hours organizing them doesn't want to watch the world burn, they're annoying. Wanting to watch the world burn is something on a completely different scale.

I think that "told" is basically short for "told off".

"You just got told" is slang for "That person just put you in your place and told you what was what and you are now justly embarrassed in public!"

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"It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends" - Harry Potter